Installation & setup | laravel-query-builder | Spatie

 SPATIE

  Laravel Query Builder
========================

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  [Docs](https://spatie.be/docs)  [Laravel-query-builder](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4)  Installation & setup

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- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/introduction)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/requirements)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/about-us)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/installation-setup)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/support-us)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/questions-issues)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/changelog)

Features
--------

- [ Filtering ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/features/filtering)
- [ Sorting ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/features/sorting)
- [ Including relationships ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/features/including-relationships)
- [ Selecting fields ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/features/selecting-fields)
- [ Appending attributes ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/features/appending-attributes)

Advanced usage
--------------

- [ Extending query builder ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/advanced-usage/extending-query-builder)
- [ Pagination ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/advanced-usage/pagination)
- [ Front-end implementation ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/advanced-usage/front-end-implementation)
- [ Multi value delimiter ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-query-builder/v4/advanced-usage/multi-value-delimiter)

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Installation & setup
========================

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require spatie/laravel-query-builder "^4.0"
```

The package will automatically register its service provider.

You can optionally publish the config file with:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\QueryBuilder\QueryBuilderServiceProvider" --tag="config"
```

These are the contents of the default config file that will be published:

```
return [

    /*
     * By default the package will use the `include`, `filter`, `sort`
     * and `fields` query parameters as described in the readme.
     *
     * You can customize these query string parameters here.
     */
    'parameters' => [
        'include' => 'include',

        'filter' => 'filter',

        'sort' => 'sort',

        'fields' => 'fields',

        'append' => 'append',
    ],

    /*
     * Related model counts are included using the relationship name suffixed with this string.
     * For example: GET /users?include=postsCount
     */
    'count_suffix' => 'Count',

    /*
     * By default the package will throw an `InvalidFilterQuery` exception when a filter in the
     * URL is not allowed in the `allowedFilters()` method.
     */
    'disable_invalid_filter_query_exception' => false,

    /*
     * By default the package inspects query string of request using $request->query().
     * You can change this behavior to inspect the request body using $request->input()
     * by setting this value to `body`.
     *
     * Possible values: `query_string`, `body`
     */
    'request_data_source' => 'query_string',
];
```